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Originally Posted by prydey
it will offer many families a very real alternative, even if you do tow the occasional trailer load of rubbish/furniture etc.
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We've got a Mazda 323 which has a 1.8L 4 cylinder petrol engine and it'll tow a 6X4 loaded up with green waste and general rubish down to the tip with no problems.
As long as they don't market it as "4 cylinder Falcon" and "Ecoboost Falcon" instead, then they'll be on a winner, theres still a big perception about 4 cylinder engines in large cars, but then again you see like 90% of the cars in Melbourne are soccer mum SUVs, like Honda CRV and they all have 4 cylinder petrol engines behind autos as well in the base models and people drive them fine?
Also lets face it, how many people do you see using Falcons for towing anything anyway? Even utes carrying loads for work?
I live in a rural area and the only Falcons/Commodore utes I see have big-*** 20" chrome wheels, slammed on its *** and not a mark in the back, mainly driven by a P plater.
I've only seen Landcruisers and other commercial dual cab 4X4s towing big loads around here, no Territories/Falcons doing any heavy work. Majority of the tradies out here have dual cab utes as well, if you travel on my roads at around 6AM in the morning, 95% of the cars on the roads are Hilux etc.
Another thing is people view the Commodore/Falcon as a Australia wide, sort of suited to anything Australia car, theres not many new Falcon/Commodore out this way either, theres a big mix of new cars out here from small to large.